Illinois Tweaks Medical Marijuana Law

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KMOX) – Illinois regulators are making some revisions to the rules for the state’s new medical marijuana law.

One big change is lowering the price for a medical marijuana card.

“Previously, patients would pay $150 for an ID card, which is now reduced to $100,” says Melaney Arnold with the Illinois Department of Public Health. “And those who are caregivers will only pay $25 for a card. We also added veterans to the list, so now they are also able to purchase and have an identification card for $50 dollars.”

Arnold says they have also agreed to remove controversial language that would have required gun owners to give up their firearms owner ID cards in order to get a medical marijuana card.

Fred Bodimer joined KMOX in 1982 after graduating from the University of Missouri at Columbia, School of Journalism. Bodimer is the Health and Religion editor for KMOX News and executive news producer for The Mark Reardon Show, Total Information PM,...